International Chess Org: Trans Women Have "No Right To Participate" In Women's Chess
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International Chess Federation, FIDE, has released new guidelines targeting transgender players. The guidelines would strip trans men's titles, and potentially bar trans women from playing.

With these new rules, FIDE has managed to

  1. Imply the mental inferiority of women
  2. Validate the existence of transgender men
  3. Destroy the integrity of awards record-keeping
  4. Call transgender women men

Very nice, FIDE, incredible mental gymnastics performance! 👏 Add them to the ever lengthening sports federation shitlist.

  • RobotToaster@infosec.pub
    41·
    1 year ago

    That you think people who are biologically male have an advantage in mental only competition

    Doesn’t supporting gender/sex separated leagues existing at all imply exactly the same thing?

    • ImOnADiet🇵🇸 (He/Him)@lemmygrad.ml
      101·
      1 year ago

      no, it’s a tool used to combat the overwhelming misogyny that makes it extremely unappealing for women to participate in. It’s only effective when these orgs actually use other policies to work alongside it, which of course they never do.

    • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
      41·
      1 year ago

      yes - but at least there you could argue that it’s a historical relic.

      I don’t think anyone could reasonably argue that the attitude that men are smarter than women (or at least, better at chess) didn’t exist previously, and that’s why they leagues are setup this way. But it’s one thing to not change existing policies rooted in sexism, and another entirely to create new policies rooted in sexism.

      The former happens literally all the time, because large institutions are slow to change, and even though blatant sexism is no longer socially acceptable, it’s still prevalent in peoples’ heads. When the latter happens, it understandably causes more uproar, because it’s an active move towards more sexist policies.

      Don’t get me wrong, we should absolutely get rid of gender based leagues IMO and switch to having leagues based on ability (whatever the critical ability might be for the competition in question) and call it a day - that would solve both the sexism issue and the trans issue, as there would no longer be any “unfair advantages”. What genitals a person was born with - whether they kept them or not - shouldn’t impact how you’re allowed to compete especially in an activity like chess that has no reasonable basis for gender separation in the first place

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
      0·
      1 year ago

      IMO you’ve hit the nail on the head.

      These conflicts and confusions are the consequences of gendered leagues, but because the issues come up in the context of transgender people, it makes it seem like an issue with transgender people.

      Buuut then there is the issue of the representation of women in (most) popular professional sports is much lower, and would be worse without this delineation along gender lines.

      So what we need is to make up our mind if we want either:

      All sports to be as fair at all times as physically possible

      Or

      If we want to see all genders fairly represented in popular professional sports

      If it is the first, we should ungender the leagues. If it is the second, we should stop worrying about it and let transgender people compete wherever they want.